How does a single cell reliably build one of the most complex structures known in nature? New research suggests the answer ...

Neuroscientists propose a new theory of brain development where cells organize based on lineage rather than long-range ...

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory postdoc Stan Kerstjens and colleagues have devised a new theory for how the brain organizes ...

The cerebral cortex, the brain’s outermost region responsible for higher cognitive functions, depends on a highly ordered, ...

Lateralization of the brain—the tendency for the left and right hemispheres to specialize in different functions—underlies the development of a left-to-right mental number line, according to a study ...